BEARISH bets for the Australian dollar are turning savage, with Credit Suisse slashing its 12-month forecast to US75 cents after conceding the currency is "normalising" quicker than it expected. In what may be the biggest dollar call by a ...
Tags: Australian dollar, economy, bank
Goldman Sachs said earlier this week it had closed its Brent/WTI spread trade recommendation after the ICE Brent premium to NYMEX crude fell below its target of $5/b, adding short-term scope for further narrowing remained, but pipeline and ...
Tags: Chemicals, Goldman Sachs
What does it take to shake the Chinese market? If stock turmoil in Shanghai and talk of bank default don't strike fear in the heart of the nation, images of a metropolis falling into a chasm will perhaps do the trick. An image from the ...
Tags: Cash Squeeze, Banks
Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) has received a $100m minority investment from the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs in a deal that APT describes as the largest investment in predictive analytics to date. Further reading How ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
B&G Foods and Pinnacle Foods are evaluating plans to acquire Unilever's American salad dressing brand Wish-Bone. The sale, which is being managed by investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, is part of Unilevers' strategy to focus on its ...
Tags: Foods, Agriculture
Concerns about the global economy and political unrest in Canberra are cruelling appetite for takeovers, with some of the nation's top dealmakers tipping companies to remain on the sidelines until economic clouds clear. In a sign of the ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has priced its underwritten ...
Tags: Solar Prices, Energy
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has announced an underwritten ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics
Fears of a possible global slowdown as US money printing tapers off sent Asian markets into a tailspin yesterday, pulling the Australian equities market back towards a level that has all but wiped off the gains it has made this year. ...
Tags: Asian Markets
The Australian dollar slumped to a near three-year low during Asia trade after local economic data disappointed and Goldman Sachs warned the resource-rich country was at risk of a steep economic downturn. New government figures today ...
Tags: Australian Dollar, Service
Large overseas institution BlackRock spent more than CNY 300 million buying additional H-shares in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to lift its holding to 6.23% after Goldman Sachs sold all shares it held in the Chinese ...
A used workspace like this one available at Arnold’s is a cost-friendly, healthier, greener, socially conscious and stock raising alternative to buying new. Unless you’ve been hiding in a nuclear bomb shelter for the past 50 ...
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Sixty per cent of the 500 largest corporations in America are testing or using BlackBerry 10 devices, the Canadian telecommunications firm has said, as phone operators' start stocking its keyboard interfaced Q10 smartphone. "This is a ...
Tags: BB10, Blackberry
The worst month on the stockmarket in a year has taken the wind out of investors, with confidence retreating from highs earlier this year amid increasing concern about the global economy and the endgame for stimulus from central banks. ...
Tags: Stockmarket, May
London-based Stemcor, the world's largest independent steel trader, has hired Simon Freakley as chief restructuring officer, within the scope of negotiations with banks on more than $1 billion of debt, according to Bloomberg. Stemcor will ...
Tags: UK, economics, trading, European Union, Istanbul